The above code yields an error message (it tries to use 1/0 in the inequality). I can solve the problem by simply starting the plot at an arbitrarily low value of a2. My question is: is there a more "elegant" way of doing that? I would expect the inequality 0 < a1 < a2 < 1 to take care of that.

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